2006 Street Machine Summer Series

Car Craft Summer Nationals sponsored by:GM Performance DivisionMAS Racing ProductsChecker Auto PartsToyo TiresDynoMaxEatonSlick 50Mobil 1

Fall Street Machine NationalsIt's almost like the traveling circus has come to town. The Fall Street Machine Nationals has been going on for 18 years with this year kickin' up again in Springfield, Missouri. The great thing about this event is it's big enough to pull in some nice iron you may not have seen before, but it's small enough that you can see it all and not feel like you have to take two days off work to recover.

Find your way to the Ozark Empire Fairgrounds just outside Springfield for three days of great machines and a bunch of other action to make it even more interesting. On Saturday, check out the machines for most of the day, then gear up for the Mickey Thompson Burnout Contest and the fender-bashing Demo Derby. The Burnout Contest will be happening again on Sunday afternoon, just in case you didn't get your minimum daily requirement of tire smoke on Saturday.

Of course there's the DynoMax Dyno Challenge, where you just might see a supercharged big-block Chevy or a heavily nitrous'd fat-block Ford try to spin the wheel off the dyno. It's all about bragging rights. We've even heard of a club turf war that's been building for the last couple of years and puts an interesting spin on this contest.

If nothing else, there are plenty of carefully massaged machines in attendance that will demand your undivided attention. Should you be a true gearhead, this will produce a few war stories worthy of urban-legend status. Every time we think we've heard them all, somebody comes up with something even more outlandish than the last. It's all in good fun, and it's all at the Fall Street Machine Nationals. We've got our ticket.

Fall Street Machine NationalsSeptember 15-17, 2006Event ScheduleFollowing are the major happenings that will go down at this event. For a full schedule, you can log onto familyevents.com.